The Town of Lemberg Saskatchewan lost the skating rink of their Community Recreation Centre to fire. The team at Olympia Steel Buildings Canada worked closely with the Community Recreation Centre Committee to design and engineer a pre-engineered steel building to replace what had been lost to fire.

The Town of Lemberg Saskatchewan lost the skating rink of their Community Recreation Centre to fire. Olympia Steel Buildings competed with a number of pre-engineered building manufacturers and won the project with competitive pricing and good service. The team at Olympia Steel Buildings Canada worked closely with the Community Recreation Centre Committee to design and engineer a pre engineered steel building 85 feet wide by 230 feet long by 20 feet high at the eaves to replace what had been lost to fire. The new building is designed to meet a high occupancy load requirement that provides an extra degree of safety to the people using the building.

The more than nineteen thousand square foot steel building ordered from Ontario-based Olympia Steel Buildings will feature a skating surface and a lobby when construction is completed. The new building became necessary following the March 10, 2011 blaze that destroyed the former skating rink, a 50 year old wooden Quonset style building. Twenty firefighters called in from both Lemberg and Neudorf fire departments battled the blaze and were able to save the lobby and curling rink. However, the structural damage to skating rink itself was too extensive to repair. The curling rink, not damaged by the fire, will remain open while the new ice skating rink is being constructed, with completion anticipated in early 2013.

The Lemberg Rink Ice and Curling Rink is an indoor community ice rink that is open year round with ice skating sessions for the public as the main attraction. Skating provides great exercise and an opportunity to get out of the house in the winter months. Curling is a team sport offered at Lemberg Rink. Lemberg Rink also offers figure skating & ice skating lessons for young and old alike with top instructors providing both the basics and instruction on proper form and technique for more advanced skaters. Both Adult and Youth Ice Hockey programs and leagues are also offered, including adult and youth pickup hockey and ice hockey clinics.

Mr Steve Wetmore of Olympia Steel Buildings Of Canada said that “It means a lot to the community to rebuild their ice rink I’m glad Olympia was there to help.”